hi venki, On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 14:30 +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Krishnakantkrmane@gmail.com wrote:
Infact I was going to propose this because off late I have been invited in many colleges to give a 1 day or 2 day workshop for shifting to gnu/linux (SNDT Joohu is migrating their entire lab to gnu, although I will put up more details on or after 4th).
How many colleges in and around Mumbai are working on FOSS in Education?Might be a good idea to hold a one day workshop to see how we all can share best practices and code. Some of the professors at IIT Bombay are doing a lot of work in this area and would be happy to host such a program.
There are quite a few. Vidhya vardhini in Vasai, SNDT Joohu, RJIT, and many others.
I will give you a detailed list if you want.
Can we put up a wiki listing FOSS Edu initiatives in Mumbai? The GCC Resource Center at IIT Bombay (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc) is holding a workshop/training on GCC for 40 people.
Why not? I had already mentioned about a group called fossers who wish to actually work with the educational organisations like schools and colleges. They are focused on creating awareness by means of workshops and install fests and back it up with good quality support for trouble shooting. It is like a "support team in a box" which is highly mobile. The aim is not to split up any lugs or other organisations, but to complement all of them by providing the missing part of the puzzle.
So if such workshops are to be held, it is perfectly doable.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.